Weekend Wrap: Corporate heavy weights prove the rise to the top can be flexible

by
Samantha Woodhill |
14 Nov 2015

Making news this week, Women’s Agenda released 2015’s Part-Time Power list, profiling 26 corporate women working flexibly; community CLCs responded to the UN’s recommendations for Australia to improve human rights and a Melbourne lawyer is facing an investigation into comments he made to a child sex abuse victim.

This year’s Part-Time Power List, put together by ProfessionalMums.net, is proof that flexible workers can still have significant careers. The list, which includes 5 lawyers, shows that the perception that part-time and flexible is a career-stunter, is slowly changing.

“It used to be that if you chose to work flexibly or part-time you were perceived as not being serious about your career and relegated to less serious roles,” said ProfessionalMums CEO, Kate Mills.

“This year’s part-time powerful people are at the top of their game running large teams and working in traditional disciplines such as mergers and acquisition.”

Alford said the recommendations send a strong message that the international community is concerned about Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.

“There were a spread of recommendations for improvement made by other countries to Australia across a range of key areas,” she said.

Melbourne lawyer Alex Lewenberg is facing a potential career-ending investigation by the state’s legal watchdog over accusations he pressured a child sex abuse victim not to help police.

Lewenberg, who represented notorious Jewish paedophile David Cyprys, told a Jewish victim that Jews shouldn’t help police prosecute fellow Jews, in covertly recorded conversations, according to a report by the Herald Sun.